Corsicana capital cost per IT MW
Company: Riot
The claim, verbatim
Total capital costs for the Corsicana development are about $6 million per IT megawatt, roughly half the capital of a Tier 3 build.
Source (primary)
Riot Platforms signs 910MW agreement with unnamed frontier AI lab (-, news_article)
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Quote: “With total capital costs of approximately $6 million per IT megawatt, the Corsicana development will require about half the capital of a Tier 3 build”
How we checked this
Checked on November 11, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article quotes Riot CEO Jason Les giving both the per-megawatt cost and the comparison with a Tier 3 build.
Confirmed in the source:
- Total capital costs for the Corsicana development are approximately $6 million per IT megawatt
- The Corsicana development will require about half the capital of a Tier 3 build
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/riot-platforms-signs-910mw-agreement-with-unnamed-frontier-ai-lab/) in full (8,709 characters, retrieved November 10, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot Platforms signs 910MW agreement with unnamed frontier AI lab
Quote: “With total capital costs of approximately $6 million per IT megawatt, the Corsicana development will require about half the capital of a Tier 3 build”
confirms Riot Platforms signs 910MW agreement with unnamed frontier AI lab - Data Center Dynamics
Quote: “With total capital costs of approximately $6 million per IT megawatt, the Corsicana development will require about half the capital of a Tier 3 build”